The Girl, The Gun and The Cat
Aug 22nd, 2024 by Aldouspi

“I don’t like a lot of color, and I don’t like a lot of clutter. I like things to be simple and direct.” – Gil Elvgren.

This post features another work of Gil Elvgren – an artist who started out by creating illustrations for calendars and advertisements, then turned to creating pinup art. Of course, he was also an accomplished portrait painter. And this skill appears in this pinup art which shows a beautiful woman, at the bottom of a set of stairs, holding a lamp and a gun. A noise has disturbed her and what made the noise? Her cat!

Known as a humorous artist, at times, this pinup illustrates Elvgren’s sense of humor.


 

A reproduction of this image of this beautiful woman on the stairs is available as an 8.5 x 11 inch photo print. It is for sale at my store on eBay (without the watermark). You can learn more about purchasing a photo print titled “Looking for Trouble” by clicking on the picture. Or click on the link below the art to be taken to this eBay item.

 

The Cat, the Girl and the Gun

Alone in the house,
      she and the cat, Puff –
her sister’s cat,
      a sister a statistic of
one of the many ways
      people die,
      too soon.

She and the cat
      had mourned together
forging
      their own bond.

Alone, too,
      because her spouse
was away – serving the country,
      perhaps, saving the world.

Then the bang?? broke
      her light slumber –
not the creaking of the old house’s
      wooden structure settling
      in its own sleep,
or the thunder from the storm
      outside,
this sound was inside –
      a disturbing noise
that needed investigation.

Alone, she carried with her
      the inherited revolver,
her father’s passing gift –
      said to be one of
Doc Holliday’s guns – her
      great grandfather played
poker in Tombstone and Colorado
      in the old days
      (and often won).

Down the stairs she crept
      ready for anything –
only to find relief
      when she would discover
the mystery was but a case
      of the cat, Puff,
knocking off a vase
      from top a cabinet.

©2024 Carl Scott Harker, author of


Classic Fine Art of Cats

The Girl, The Gun and The Cat 8.5×11″ Photo Print Gil Elvgren Pinup Art Trouble



Looking for Trouble – the Mysterious Sound by Gil Elvgren.

Purchase this photo print on eBay, by clicking here:

Gil Elvgren’s pinup of a Pretty Woman on the Stairs with A Gun.

Click this link to view all of my pinups, vintage nudes and other fine art photo prints in the Aldouspi Anything Store.

 


 

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